
GENEALOGY 



OF THE 



GRIGSBY FAMILY 

IN PART 
INCLUDING A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE 

PORTER FAMILY 



Republished by 

Published by ROBERT HALL 'McCORMICK 

WILLIAM H. GRIGSBY 1905 

December. 1878 CHICAGO 



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Genealogy of the Grigsby Family. 

IN PART. 



The Grigsbys are Anglo-Saxon. Goldsmith mentions their great 
number in England. [In drama "She Stoops to Conquer."] Josiah, in 
1794, in the House of Commons, seconded the motion of the celebr; 
Earl Gray, later prime minister of England, for a reform in the representa- 
tion of Parliament. The English ancestors of our family came over to 
Virginia in about the year 1660, on the restoration of Charles II.; and 
were on the side of the Puritans, as Independents. 

John Grigsby was born^l720, Stafford Co., Va. Was called "Soldier 
John" after he was one of ib%&&$Me^v?ashington's company at the siege 
of Carthagena, &c. The tradition is that his parents came from Wales, 
(which even Julius Cassar could not conquer.) It is known that he I 
three brothers: Thomas, Aaron and Redmond. 

John married Miss Aitchison [Scotch] or Etchison, 1746, and settled 
on upper side Rapid Ann river, Culpepper Co.; where was born to them: 
James, Nov. 10, 1748; John, Oct. 15, '52; Charles, Apr. 6, '55; Sally, 
Dec. 30, '57; William, Dec. 6, '61. 

This wife died, 1761 or '62, and in '64 John m Elizabeth Porter, 

daughter of Benjamin and Ann (C« 11) Porter, Orange Co., Va., who 

had settled there as early as 1730. (He was a native of England, and she 
or her parents came from Wales). She was a sister of James Grigsl 
first wife, Frances Porter. The children -• Ann, [tine 1">. 171 

Joseph, July 6, '68; Jane, Nov. 17, '69; Racl 7, 71; Marl 

Sep. 19, 72; Elisha, May 17. '74; Elizabeth, Maf. 10, 76; Franc, b. 2, 

78; Reuben, July 5, '80. Ail except Reuben were born in Culpepper Co.; 
and he in Rockbridge Co., at "Fruit Hill," where the | ats had sett' 
Fall 1779. The father died, 1798 or '99. "He was a hard ring, 

industrious man; and was taken with his last illness while coopering a 
tobacco hogshead." 

All the daughters, e: 'win, who died in infancy, married a1 

old Rockbridge homestead. (Sally] 

Sally married Thomas Welch, Culpepper I ttled on the 

"Fancy Hill" farm, Rockbridge Co., in a mil e old hom< bf 

where they died in old age. M n of children^ Mildred, Al< i 

McCorkle; Nancy, Wm. McCorkle; R.o 7m. Sfcnningham; Betsy, 




Presbyterian Church, Talla Ala.: bu it in 1872, returrifjko 

Rockbridge Co. He had at home, 1871 . a g -own son, Sylvester, (1 believe,) 
a lad, Willie, and a charmin brunette. A tful 

family. 



J \\k married William Paxton, ruling-elder of Falling Spring Church, 
Rockbridge Co. Here she always lived. [My father, son of her brother 
William, after his mother's death, passed much of his boyhood in her 

ie.] She was the mother of Gen. E. F. Paxton. Adjutant of "Stone- 
wall" Jackson until he became Lieut. -Gen., and then succeeded to the 
command of the us "Stonewall Brigade" — (late in command of 

his cousin Andrew Jackson Grigsby) — at the head of which he was struck 
dead in the decisive charge at the battle of Chancellorsville. 

Says Dabney's Lit of Stonewall Jackson, page 70'.): "The last 
occupation of General Paxton on the battlefield, after he had placed his 

nents in position, was to employ the interval of leisure in reading his 
New Testament; and that as he received the order to carry them into 
action, he replaced the book in his pocket and accompanied his command 
to move with a brief exhortation to those around him, to entrust their 

ty into the hand of the Almighty in the faithful performance of t' 
duty." Again: Lieut. Smith, nurse, related to Jackson on his death bed 
"the magnificent onset of the Stonewall Brigade." — "They sprang forward 
ami drove before them three-fold numbers with irresistible enthusiasm, and 
decided the great day. The general listened with glistening eyes; and 
after a strong effort to repress his tears said: ' It was just like them to do 
so; just like them. They are a noble body of men.' Smith replied: 
'They have, indeed, behaved splendidly; but you can easily suppose, 
General, that it was not without the loss of many valuable men.' His 
anxiety was immediately aroused, and he asked quickly: 'Have you heard 
of any one that is killed?' Said Smith: 'Yes, sir; I am sorry to say, they 
have lost their commander.' He exclaimed, 'Paxton? Paxton?" Smith — 
'Yes, sir; he has fallen.' Thereupon, he turned his face to the wall; closed 
his eyes, and remained a long time quiet, laboring to suppress his emotion. 
He then, without any other expression of his own sense of bereavement, 
began to speak in a serious and tender strain of the genius and virtues of 
that officer." [1 am proud that my father was his cousin, and that they 
were reared in the same family. A short time before he died, (1856,) he 
revived to speech, and addressed his "Aunt Jane," about "Falling Spring 
• diurch." He had very frequently said: "She was all the 'mother,' I can 
remember of having."] 

Rachel married Alex. McNutt;f Martha, Alex. Trimble. [A Trimble 
married my Aunt.] Elizabeth, Wm. McNutt. All of Rockbridge Co. 

nces ("Franky") married Thomas Beckham, Culpepper Co., "Clover 
Hill;" lived and died there, aged 60. Their children were: James A., John 

;sby, (who lived for many years in W'arrenton, Fauquier Co., and now 

les in Prince William Co.) .Mary married Samuel Porter; moved to 

•rty Co., Mo., and reai urge family. MarTTiaTTJr. Lewis, to Ark.; 

Hannah died, unm; . when about 35 years of age; Aimer Porter 

(quite a scholar) died when about 21 years old; Frances Jane Thomas 
married David S. Gwin, Hath Co., only surviving son of David Gwin, 
Revolutionary soldier. They lived a1 Alexandria, Va.. from 1853 to her 
death, Oct., 1871. He now resides in Baltimore, with his oldest son, 
Thomas T., who married his cousin, Maggie Mohler, Rockingham Co., 
daughter of Jane, youngest child of Elisha Grigsby. (Thomas had a 
daughter [deceased] named Fannie Grigsby.) The second son, James, 
was killed by an accident when 4 years old; and four other children died 
before coming of age. David William married Jennie Crawford Howell, 
daughter of Rev. R. B. C. Howell, D. D., (for a quarter century pastor of 
the First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tcnn., and died in 1861.) and sister 



of Edith Serena Howell, who, 1877, married Andrew Jackson Grigsby, that 
city, (whom I believe to be a son of James Scott, eldest son of Joski-h 
GrigsbyJ Rev. David William Gwin, I). D., is pastor of the First Baptist 
Church, Atlanta, Ga., and was for the eight years preceding pastor in 
Montgomery, Ala. He is not only a fine scholar, a reasonable eloquent 
and popular preacher, but also a very cordial and public-spirited gentle- 
man in society. His little son Grigsby Toy [named also for a Norfolk, Va., 
family] died in 1871. The living children are Howell, Crawford and Gertrude. 
The Doctor was 40 years old 6th Dec. last. Fannie Viola married a Powers, 
and they live at Mt. Sterling, Ky., [where is living a Grigsby family.] 
Mary S. unmarried; the others are Ella F., Laviece and George. A sister 
died when 7 years old named Eliza Grigsby. 

James, in 1708, married Frances [" Franky"] Porter, OrangeCo., 
youngest sister of his father's second wife. [These sisters were the mother 
and aunt of the Porter sisters who married the brothers, Elisha and 
Reuben Grigsby.] Soon after they moved from Culpepper Co., and settled 
in Rockbridge Co., on the farm first below "Fancy Hill" where his sister 
Sally lived. Here were born unto them: Benjamin Porter, Sep. 18, 
1770; John, Mar. 7, 72; Mary, May 27, 74; Hannah, Oct. 10, 77; Simeon, 
Dec. 18, 79. The mother of this family died not long after the birth of 
Simeon, and was buried near the top of sloping ground in the rear of her 
last dwelling place. There, too, and by her side, John was buried, who 
died in early youth. Simeon was lost at sea, by the foundering of the 
vessel in which he sailed from Norfolk for New Orleans, where he intended 
to settle and practice law. Mary and Hannah were "the two pretty little 
girls" noticed and spoken of by the Marquis of Chastellux in his Travels 
through Virginia, to see the Natural Bridge, etc. Mary married a Wier, 
and their son Adolphus and my father were clerks in the Clerk's office of 
Rockbridge Co. Hannah married a Snodgrass, and they moved to Georgia. 
I met her for a few moments, Dec. 1871, in Giles Co., Tenn. She was the 
most intelligent and sprightly old woman I ever saw; and she was in her 
95th year of age. Her memory was very active and her speech rapid and 
concise. Intending to see her again, (which I could not make convenient,) 
I took no notes of her familiar family knowledge. She may be still living. 

Benjamin Porter Grigsby married a daughter of Hugh and Lilias 
(Blair) McPherson. (He was a Highlander and she Virginian.) This 
son became a clergyman, and was the father of Hugh Blair Grjgsbyj LL.D., 
born in 1806. (Graduate of Yale.) The Doctor married a Miss Carring- 
ton; removed from Norfolk in L861, where for 4 or ;"> years — about 1830 — . 
he was interested in a daily paper; but nearly ever since he uas been a 
heavy tobacco planter. He now lives at Charlotte C.-H., Va. They ha 
a son, Hugh Carrington, born in 1856, now being edu at Hampden- 

Sidney College; and a beautiful daughter named Mary Blair, now about 
18 years of age. She has a fair, brilliant co l; flaxen hair, and 

impressive presence. As the Doctor says, and as her picture shows, "She 
is thoroughly Anglo-Saxon, after the Grigsby side of the house." He 
writes in a letter: "It is to daughters, and not to ons, thai the father must 
look for the delicate and urn ble Irindm es so grateful to declining 

years. Not that sons fail in duty to their sire : bu1 the tender and per- 
petual offices to be rendered to the old are in ome measure extraneous to 
the masculine temperament. That this is not a new thought of mine, you 
may see from 'Lines to my Daughter on hi i Fourteenth Birthday,' which 
I wrote at her request." [A very unpretentious title to quite a fine book!] 
Ao-ain: "Mere wealth goes but a little way with me, unless it has been won 



by the honest exercise of the \ qualities of the head and heart " 

* * * " Religion is strictly a personal concern; and each one must act for 
one's self, under a solemn sense of the resi ilities of time and eterrr 

not beet) vouchsafed to us, which we are 

i member of the American Philosophical Society 
! of the Historical Society of Virginia, Pennsylvania, &c, &c. In the 
ure of an acti\ iness life, he has become the author of several 

pu': -the Life and Character of Gov. Tazewell, History of the 

Convention of 1798, Centennial Discourse on the Origin and History of 
1 ! impden-Sidney College, &c, &c. He has largely discussed political 
eco- 

Considerable time after the death of his first wife. Tames married 

Rebecca \ ;, widow of Col. Samuel Wallace, Roci e Co., parents 

tl\ wife of Charles Grigsby. They had three children: John, 

<>n and Samuel.*^ Tohn's family were, so far as I know: Margaret, 

nes, John, William, Edward W. and Benjamin. Margaret married a 

Garrison, and in 1872 lived in Limestone Co., Ala. James, (then lately 

dea \s the father of John Pitt Grigsby, Bethel, Term.; who, like his 

father was, is a man of great physical power, and on my visit enthusiastically 

read to me from Bryant's Homer. [He appreciates the stalking prowess 

of the gods!] -.He was married to a Miss Readus, whose brother married his 

sister Tiara. **The only other living member of this family, in 1872, was 

■garet, the handsome wife of Dr. Mason, Prospect, Tenn. John, 

William, and Benjamin were old bachelors, and are dead. Edward W.'s 

children were: Sally (Baugh,) Caroline (Copeland), Nancy (Griffis,) Edward, 

Jennie, Lucy, John and Ida — who is especially educated, accomplished, 

liring, and very good looking, indeed! All the brothers were wealthy. 

[Elkton, Tenn.] 

James moved to East Tenn., and settled in Sequatchee Valley, Bledsoe 
Co. His third wife [where married, I know not] was Mary Ann Mondon; 
and they had one daughter, Mondaner, and seven sons: William, James, 
Louis, Charles, Wilkilson, Newton and Calvin. • Mondaner and Charles 
were living in Dec, 1876. Uncle Reuben describes a visit to him in the 
Valley, 1834; and he died February following, in the 87th year of his age. 
When a young man he was^a member of the General Assembly of Va. 
* Toip married a Miss ^ Watson, South Carolina, and thence to Ala. 
nA ' - (Grigsby) Ilolston, wife of Stanmore Holston, La Fayette, Ala., 
i rand-daughter. Her mother, a widow Grigsby, was living with her 

in 1S72. Two charming daughters then graced her pleasant home; both 
have marrie 

Charles married Elizabeth, da r of Col. Samuel Wallace, sister 

ndrew-, of Rockbridge Co., and si ughter from 7 years 

old of Ia.ii.s Grigsby. Soon after marriage, they went to Tenn. They 

ildren; of whom all but the two youngest married: James, 

Houston; Sally, \Vm. Greenway; Martha, Edward Anderson; 

Rebecca, Benj. Cleaveland; Samuel. Dorcas Wiley; William, Mary Green - 

. Mary, John McKinsey; liel, T ance Bowin; Caroline, 

Chesley Carter; [ohn Etchison, (3) Susan Roberts, Mahala Gammon, i nd 

eth Cook; Charlotta, Win. Scrivner; Elizabeth and Benjamin. 

In Dec, 1876, these were living: Sally, Samuel, William, Nathaniel, John 

Etchison, Charlotta and Elizabeth. Charles, the father, died about the 

year L816. John Etchison was born about in 1810. [P. O., Cleaveland, 

Bradley Co., Tenn.] He reared 9 children to be j a — lstwife: Samuel, 

born Feb. 20, 1834, married Mary Gonce; William, May IS, '37, Ann In 

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Benj. F., Sep. 14, '40, Elizabeth Roberts. 2nd wife: Mary, April 27, '46, 
Robert Privette; Ann, May 25, '47, Charles Maynard; Hannah, Aug. 30, 
'48, Polk Runyan; Charles, Mar. 30, '50; James, Dec. 7, '51, 'Malinda 
Runyan; Susan, Aug. 30, '53. No children of third marriage. 

"William* married Sally Porter, I think of Culpepper Co., and they 
had five daughters and two sons: Polly, Jane, Elizabeth, Sally, John, (who 
died in early youth,) Samuel and- Caroline, He always lived in Rockbridge 
Co., and died about in 1830. It is my impression that Polly married a 
Trimble; Jane never married; Elizabeth, Thomas Welch; Sally, a Porter 
or a Darst, and Caroline, a Templeton. The latter with her husband went 
in 1825 or '26 to live near Liberty, Ind. Samuel, my father, was born May 
20, 1803. He was called "Little Sam" in the same neighborhood with 
Samuel the youngest son of his uncle James and aunt Rebecca. He 
wrote when a youth in the Clerk's office of Rockbridge Co., with Adolphus 
Wier (older,) son of his cousin Mary. As before stated, after his mother's 
death, when he was probably about 5 years old, much of his boyhood was 
passed at the home of his aunt Jane Paxton, at "Falling Spring." In 
about 1823, he was taught and practiced architecture and carpentry, 
according to a Scotchman named Balingall on the building of a house for 
his uncle Elisha, or it might have been Reuben, or for both. In this work 
he had his left eye put out accidentally. In 1826 he visited his sister in 
Indiana; lived a while in Mashvilfe-and New Orleans, and on June 11, 1836, 
he married Sarah Tharp, daughter of a wealthy gentleman at Pekin, Ills., 
who had moved there from Ky., and who had in all with one wife 16 grown 
children, and lived to be over 95 years old^y Next year he stopped a few 
months at Belleville, Ills., on his way to a 9 years' residence in S. W. Mo. 
Most of the time there he was Clerk of Court, and repeatedly declined 
urgent requests to stand as Whig candidate for Congress. In 1846 he 
returned to Pekin, on a visit; but bought a farm 5 miles in the country 
near the Bloomington road. In 1856 he moved to Lancaster, Iowa. Here 
on the 31st day of October, of that year, he died. He would not be, but 
he might have been, one of the leading men of this country. I know I 
speak critically and with due discrimination, when I pronounce him to have 
been the most reasonable and best informed man I ever knew, and ever 
above a mean act, and strictly honest. Said Dr. C. A. R.oberts, (now a 
prominent politician of Illinois, then our family physician,) "he had 
the most powerful constitution I ever saw." Though not a tall man, his 
strength and activity were wonderful. His brain was alike strong and 
vigorous, and his head was over 24 inches around. But he had an un- 
utterable aversion to public life after his Electoral canvass for Henry Clay, 
to find him beaten by "one James K. Polk!" Moreover, while making a 
speech in Ozark Co., the Polkites and roughs mobbed .him with stones, 
almost causing his death outright; as it was thereby brought on after 
twelve years of constant decline. I am his only child, and was born near 
Springfield, Mo., Oct. 28, 18 !8-t From before my teens to father's death, 
I supported the family on a farm. Then, at IS, prepared for college in a 
machine shop and on R. R. engineer corps. Left Illinois State University 
at the breaking up of the Charleston Presidential Convention; became 
editor on daily paper, and declared war as certain if Lincoln became 
elected — never doubted; in Dec. following went to New York, to see the 
opening of what I predicted would be "a seven-years war." In Sept., 
1861, walked from there to the Ohio river; worked my passage to St. Louis; 
went to Springfield, my birth-place — in short, gave my time to the war 
thus even before it began to the surrender, in one way or another. Have 



three wounds — in front; was prisoner once, but got away under very 

unhealthy circumstances. Prepan theological seminary as printer 

in Xi'w York, Boston, and li I Square; graduated therein July, 1868; 

immediately settled as pastor. 1 Millie WillardJ Aug. 17th follow- 

ing. On [ r 12, ls:>9 ithly lung-hemorrhage, from overwork; 

recti] 1 in Ala., Ga. and Tenn., as missionary — travelled about 5,000 

miles, till Dec, 1871. I wrote Hon. A. H. Stephens' School History at his 
dictation; was city editor of his Atlanta Daily Sun for six months; for 
4£ years clerk Executive Department; and for 1 \ ving superintendent 

Experimental Farm of the University of Georgia. At once engaged as 
editor of the Daily Evening Post of this city; am now putting my affairs 
in shape to go to Washington, D. C. (Phonographer.) Have lost no time; 
buthavelivedarushinglife.il Children: Mav Serena, born J a- 870; 

Willard Channing, Feb. 28, 73; Belle, ." 25, 75, and died * "July 11, 76; 
|Ida Virginia, Oct. 19, 78. Healthy and vigorous, .l/m-achievous and 
6o;y-steerous ! 

Joseph married Mary Ashley Warren Scott (south side James river) in 
181 1 or 1812. To them were born: Jane Ashley, Eliza Scott [born July 4, 
1815; died Nov. 28, 1820,] James Scott, John Warren and Andrew Jackson. 
Tn Dec, 1820, the father when returning horn a visit to Missouri, died at the 
house of Mr. Sharp, near Winchester, Tenn. He was buried in the family 
graveyard of the Messrs. Sharp. A plain tomb of Tennessee marble 
incloses his grave. Jane Ashley married Rev. James Walker Goss of 
Orange Co. She 1 ivcd in 1876 in AJbemarle Co. James Scott married 
[Hannah?] Judith Porter, daughter of Benjamin, son of Abner [and Hannah 
Ingram?] Porter of Orange Co. This was the father probably of James and 
Andrew Jackson Grigsby of Nahville, Tennessee; where also their widowed 
mother lives — neice of the wife of Elisha Grigsby. John Warren married 
Susan Shelby, grand-daughter of General Shelby, Ex-Governor of Ky. 
He was Consul to France during the administrations of Presidents Harrison, 
Tyler and Polk. He lived at Danville, Ky., and was at the time of his 
death [Jan., 1877] a member of the General Assembly of that State; and was 
therein a leader in educational affairs. Ex-Governor and U. S. Senator 
Stevenson said of him the summer before his death: "We live in the same 
n; he is one of my most intimate friends: a man of exalted character, 
and one of the most distinguished men of Ky." The Danville Advocate 
said: * * * "This entire people from the humblest to the highest had 
other than ordinary regard for him; for in him were centered all the 
qualities that make a man at once noble and pure, generous, just and great. 
His faultless Christian deportment; his unswerving fidelity to correct 
1 irinciple in detail ; his ready recognition of merit in the humble or the more 
exalted, and his abhorrence of meanness in either, rendered him eminently 
adapted to the high social position he has always enjoyed at home and 
abroad. As a benefactor and servant of the people of whom they were 
proud, his race is run; but in memory his name will be revered," &c. 
Said the Lexington Press: * * * "The solemn peal of the organ, the 
impressive service, and the beautiful emblems of purity, faith and hope 
which covered the casket, seemed to find a response in the hearts of the 
audience in harmony with, and inspired by, the profound respect and deep 
veneration which the character of the deceased had impressed upon all 
men. There lay the remains of one who had been brave, generous, unsel- 
fish and pure throughout a life of nearly three score years; one whose life 
had been one perpetual act of sublime faith in God and man; and the re- 
sponse of every heart was in accord with the beautiful fitness of the service 



and the emblems to the character of the deceased." &c. Other journals of 
like tenor. He took an active, zealous and commanding part in the war. 
Andrew Jackson is a bachelor; a few years ago he was living with his 
sister, the widow Goss. At first he commanded the 27th Regiment in the 
Stonewall Brigade; and being senior colonel was frequently in command 
of that Brigade. As at Harpers Ferry — Dabney's Life of Jackson says, 
an important point was to be taken — "He [Stonewall] directed the Stone- 
wall Brigade, under command of Colonel Grigsby, to seize it. This was 
done." &c. At Sharpsburg: "Early on informing Jackson of his critical 
position, he assigned to Colonel Grigsby the task of holding the left column 
in check. * * * Early advanced in conjunction with Semmes, Grigsby and 
Stafford. By this combined attack they [the enemy] were swept sum- 
marily with great loss from the woods, and the lines were finally restored." 
Dabney styles him "the dauntless Col. Grigsby." [His cousin Gen. E. F. 
Paxton, Jackson's Adjutant till put in command of the Brigade, was killed 
at its head; as before stated.] 

Elisha married Elizabeth Hawkins Porter, daughter of Abner and 
Hannah (Ingram) Porter. Their children were: Abner, A. P., who married 
Margaret Thompson of Rockbridge Co., and in a few years afterward 
settled at Winston, Tenn. He was for years Treasurer of the Mobile & 
Ohio R. R. These were the parents of Wm. T. Grigsby of Trenton, Tenn. 
His mother lived there in 1874. He and a brother proudly "wore the 
Gray." Hannah Ingram married* David Greenlee of Rockbridge Co., 
where they reared a family. John went to Mo. ; married and died there, 
leaving two sons named John and Elisha as infants to the care of his widow. 
John, just after the war, was strongly urged editorially in the old Mo, 
Republican for Democratic candidate for Congress [4th Dist., I think.] 
Probably didn't stand. Joseph married a Miss Wier, in Mississippi. They 
had several children. He left home on a speculation trip to California, and 
died on his way out. Verlinda married Thomas Scott of Campbell Co., 
Va. Here she died; leaving two children, Elisha and Nancy ("Nannie.") 
Jane married Jacob Mohler of Rockingham Co.; where she died, leaving a 
family of sons and daughters. Mollie married Thomas T. Gwin, grandson 
of her aunt Frances, and brother of Rev. Dr. Gwin. She lives in Balti- 
more. 

Reuben married Verlinda A. Porter, a sister of the wife of Elisha. 
Their children were: Jacqueline A., Lucien P. [a bachelor about 50 years 
old; has lived in Rockbridge Co. until a few years ago, and then became 
interested in Springs elsewhere.] Abner Joseph, George Hugh Blair, 
Hannah Frances, who married John G. Hamilton; [to whom were born 
Reubenia (died in 4th year,) Verlinda, Mary Cornelia, "Abbey" Joseph, 
William Taliaferro, Maria Temple, Bettie and Emma Virginia.] Elizabeth 
Jane, Mary Ann, who marm-i \\ m. McCormick [of Reaper fame;] she lived 
for years in Chicago, Ills., but now resides in Baltimore, in a grand home "^ ^ 
said to be "a $90,000 palace." [Their children were named : Robert Hall, J jj 
(afterwards changed by him to Robert Sanderson as he had an elder ^ -3 ^ 
cousin by that name, a son of Leander J. McCormick,) William, ? •& p - 
Mary Verlinda [died in 2nd year,] Emma Louise, and Reubenia,-^" j> ^-<i 
who married Dr. S. Temple Chandler; [to whom were born: Hugh Blair 
I (died in infancy,) De Lacy Morgan, Lucy Verlinda, Joseph Sanderson, 
Anna Hamilton, Emma Temple and Frank Paxton.] Lucy Maria married 
Norborne E. Chandler. [Their children were: John [died in infancy,] 
Reuben, Walter Temple, Frank Porter [died in 3rd year,] Verlinda Porter, " v 7 
Lucien Hamilton, Mary Blair and Elizabeth Gertrude.] Reuben \V. W. 



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ma. who married a Mr. H no children. She livi era! 

vannah; but lives now in Nashville. Benjamm died in 
buried with the mother of the family in the cemetery of 
i hunh in I i1 in I ■- as also 

bur d. I corresponded 

h him, in i wax on our homes; he was then livii 

"Fruit Hill," the dear and blessed Old li us all. 

Thei >r. E. DeYi'-w. Ark. rence, 

Ala. Also a Rev. Mr living near B ville, that State. An- 

other '. that name in i n. At a -meeting he saw- 

that tl • vival" r : thereupon he 

rushed uj> into the pulpit and sh< ' [ore straw!! I : en! 

■ • i sir ! ! " 

Gri E Tl on of the Judge Grigsby Eskridge 

rick Gi of Hancock Co., [whose 

nd-mother's maiden name was Rebecca Eskridge,] lives in Columbus, 

four times. I think, by Governors to be 

Soli is or v.. try of the First Presbyterian 

(it that city. He wrote me: " I ha ard my father say that he 

1 by his parents, that cted to maintain each of 

■ h honor and credit to the names and to himsel 

tion ap] to be this: What G m was the mother of 

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References. 

* In I )( ■ . 1860, I I- ft my father's family Bi my valuable books 

with a room-mal lal Univer- 

o the Federal an ly. Su u i have been una'. If to find 

[rely from l-father William's 

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mother brother, [• Sci :t 

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| a Portei William P i lately, married a 

Mr Harvey Hatcher, Oran I [hter, I believe, and is a 

I William Jones, D D., Secretar) rn Historical Society, [Editor 

" Papi rs."] inia 

The Scnur ly (of which the Admiral only o famous,) and 

blood k in Sarah [Semmi • ' ' >n Benj C< >nley, [ ' 

• ■ r ol Atlanta, < i;i..| is a grand- 

wives of Blisha and Reuben Gi ter [wife of 

■ m thi I ha • n fine family oi childn 

Christmas, 1878. W. H. QRIQSBY. 



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